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The sun(flower)’ll come out tomorrow…

appetizer, art, cheese, fruit, kids, lookalikes, other sites, picky eaters | April 14, 2011 | By Jessi

Sunflower Snack from Crafty Moods
Cute, eh? I know a lot of people who would look at that and say “eh, that’s too much work” but look at it. It really couldn’t get any simpler than that. Instead of leaving the cheese in rectangle slices, they’re diagonally cut in half, and within a couple minutes, they’d easily be laid out into a sunflower.
The center could be filled with other fruits, really, to turn this into something picky kids would love. Or it could work as a nice appetizer platter for a school event, a family party, and well, any kind of quirky party I would throw myself. :P

Mushroom, mushroom!

camp, canada, Canadian, cheese, culture, fungus, images, mushrooms, oamc, once a month cooking, personal, pictures, popcorn, produce, snacks, stories, vancouver | February 26, 2011 | By Jessi

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*Edit* Grr, I don’t know why the YouTube videos haven’t been embedding properly lately. Sorry. :(

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom, mushroom!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom, mushroom!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom mushroom!
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Argh, snake, argh, a snake! Snaaake! Snaaaake! Ooooooh it’s a snake!
Yep, that’s the song I was singing the entire time I was chopping mushrooms, sometimes while the YouTube video played on loop and sometimes sans music backup.
The fruits (or would that be fungus?) of my labor:
Cream of mushroom soup

Portabello goodies:

Served as pie wedges
Mushroom poppers, slices, etc – several bowls left that were used for a variety of dishes

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger…..mushroom, mushroom!! <3 :P

The wattle waddles…er, wobbles – Thanksgiving turkey cheeseball

appetizer, beef jerky, cheese, cheeseball, cream cheese, holidays, quirky, quirky creations, slim jim, Thanksgiving, turkey | February 20, 2011 | By Jessi

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That was one of my Thanksgiving dinner contributions.

I can’t even remember which cheeseball recipe I used, but it was delicious, rolled in a mix of chopped walnuts, almonds, and pecans. What? I couldn’t decide.

The wattle is made of a tiny piece of spaghetti, soaked in red food coloring. The neck and head piece are from a Slim Jim that I forced to hold its shape with a clip for a while.

The beak is a bit of cream cheese colored yellow, and the eyes are the same concept. I did my icing with the tiny corners of ziploc bags like this:

And the tailfeathers? They’re a combination of pretzel sticks in the front and larger sesame sticks in the back row. By the end, only a few tail feathers remained, and even those didn’t make it through the night. Delicious.